Bloomberg's @jmathieureports gets a first-hand look at “The Claw,” the nearly 100-foot custom structure built for Sunday’s UFC fight on the South Lawn, marking America’s 250th birthday and President Trump’s 80th. The massive production is drawing scrutiny over the logistics of staging a combat sport at the White House — and Trump’s financial stake in UFC’s parent company bloom.bg/4eqNKE9

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Trump tells Fox News he spoke directly with Iranian officials tonight who asked him to stop the bombing, according to an on-air report from Fox reporter Trey Yingst, who says he spoke with the president from the Situation Room.

Nikki Haley, Trump's ambassador to the UN in his first term, said the president should stop negotiating with Iran and urged him to "go finish what you started" bloom.bg/4vlpJ8N

FDIC Chair Travis Hill comments on Stablecoin rewards and the future of the CLARITY Act on Balance of Power bloom.bg/4ogKfEN

Heather Conley, nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, said that despite Ukraine's military wins, she expects Putin to keep the war going at great cost bloom.bg/3RVQ26z

A high-stakes battle is brewing in Washington over the future of US government surveillance. Bipartisan pushback against President Trump’s tapping of FHFA Director Bill Pulte as acting Director of National Intelligence has derailed a Senate procedural vote to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). @kaileyleinz has more bit.ly/3Q07oi2

President Donald Trump outlined a hands-off approach to addressing cybersecurity threats raised by artificial intelligence under an executive order that calls for giving the US government voluntary access to AI models. Bloomberg's @kaileyleinz reports bloom.bg/4abWMDt

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman says the agency will begin building a moon base with near-monthly robotic landings starting in 2027, with astronauts potentially living on the lunar surface for months at a time by the early 2030s. He speaks to @EdLudlow and @CarolineHydeTV bloom.bg/4uTKZCl

"SpaceX is probably our greatest commercial space company, hands down," says NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman bloom.bg/4uTKZCl

The US charged former Cuban President Raúl Castro with murder, sharply escalating a standoff with Havana as the Trump administration attempts to force change on the island after nearly seven decades of communist rule. Bloomberg's Myles Miller reports bloom.bg/4tLu2s2

President Trump and the candidates he endorsed in the congressional primary had a good night on Tuesday. But, as @tylerskendall asks, will it be enough to keep control of the House and Senate come November? bloom.bg/4uZvU1o

Michael "Killer Mike" Render, Grammy Award Winning Rapper, joined Balance of Power to discuss the Georgia primaries, Atlanta's growth and the importance of getting out to vote. Watch our full interview here: bit.ly/4wRSQlc

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, speaking days after he joined President Donald Trump’s summit in China, said he expects Chinese authorities will eventually allow the import of artificial intelligence chips from the US bloom.bg/4tKrmLt

US President Donald Trump says he discussed guardrails on artificial intelligence with Chinese leader Xi Jinping during a two-day summit in Beijing bloom.bg/4eK8DMf

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was spotted eating Beijing’s famous fried bean sauce noodles. Huang, who is in Beijing as part of Donald Trump’s state visit to China, seemed perfectly content relishing the local staple right on the sidewalk. Follow our coverage from the summit: bloom.bg/3PDfoVX

President Donald Trump said China agreed to buy 200 planes from Boeing Co., marking the nation’s first purchase of US-made commercial jets in nearly a decade. Tyler Kendall reports bloom.bg/4nxSFqT

China President Xi Jinping and other industry leaders are showing "more power and influence" than President Trump at the summit in Beijing, Massachusetts @RepAuchincloss tells @kaileyleinz and @jmathieureports bloom.bg/4d8TzXj

Top lines from our exclusive interview with US Trade Representative @jamiesongreer in Beijing: “We expect to also see an agreement for double-digit billion purchases of ags over the next three years, per year, coming out of this visit, and that’s more general, that’s aggregate, that’s not just soybeans, that’s everything else” Greer, who was also part of the Trump delegation to China in 2017, downplayed Xi’s stark warning on Taiwan— “I don’t expect the Taiwan issue to bleed into Board of Trade. I just don’t.” Chips was not a major topic of discussion at the bilateral meeting— “We did not talk about chip export controls at the meeting.” Greer says approval of Nvidia’s H200 chip purchases will be determined by China. On rare earths, Greer said he would give Beijing a “passing grade” on restoring exports. bloomberg.com/news/videos/20…